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Gándara, Patricia; Mordechay, Kfir – Educational Forum, 2017
Latino students now make up 1 in 4 public school students in the United States and are a rapidly growing population in nontraditional settlement areas. Yet persistent racial and ethnic disparities in educational achievement and attainment are cause for grave concern, as high school graduation and postsecondary-education are increasingly necessary…
Descriptors: Demography, Social Change, Barriers, Hispanic American Students
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Mordechay, Kfir; Orfield, Gary – Educational Forum, 2017
Educators and policy makers must confront the race and class disparities in learning opportunities across American society. Nowhere are these disparities more acute than in the country's great metropolitan areas. As the demographic landscape continues to shift, metropolitan areas are fueling the transition to a majority-minority country. This…
Descriptors: Demography, Public Schools, Metropolitan Areas, Social Justice
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Stroub, Kori J.; Richards, Meredith P. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: While postwar suburban migration established suburbs as relatively affluent, homogeneous white enclaves distinct from the urban core, recent waves of suburbanization and exurbanization have been spurred largely by rapid growth in the nonwhite population. While these increases in suburban racial/ethnic diversity represent a significant…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Public Schools, School Segregation, Educational Change
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Saultz, Andrew; Yaluma, Christopher B. – Journal of School Choice, 2017
We analyze the geographical distribution of, and access to, charter schools in the state of Ohio. Using poverty and race data from the U.S. Census, as well as publicly available student achievement scores, we analyze the locational preferences of charter schools. We use Geographic Information System (GIS) to visual display charter school locations…
Descriptors: Demography, Access to Education, Equal Education, Geographic Distribution
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2018
The purpose of this article was to examine faculty characteristics of CTE programs across the nation as well as identify the challenges and successes of implementing programs. Findings pointed to the overall decline of CTE full-time-equivalent faculty and the increase of adjunct faculty. In addition, findings demonstrated a lack of ethnic and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Characteristics, Vocational Education
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Harris, Jessica C.; BrckaLorenz, Allison; Nelson Laird, Thomas F. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2018
The research presented in this article utilizes data from four years of the National Survey of Student Engagement to shed light on the biracial student population and their engagement practices in postsecondary contexts. Specifically, this study explored the ways in which biracial students with different racial heritages engage differently from…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Racial Identification, College Freshmen, College Seniors
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2017
The Iowa Department of Education collects information on joint enrollment from Iowa's 15 community colleges. Jointly enrolled students are high school students enrolled in community college credit coursework. Most jointly enrolled students enroll through Senior Year Plus programs such as Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) and concurrent…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Enrollment Trends, Enrollment Rate, Community Colleges
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Ritter, Gary W.; Jensen, Nathan C.; Kisida, Brian; Bowen, Daniel H. – Education and Urban Society, 2016
We examine the impact of charter schools on school integration in the Little Rock, Arkansas metropolitan area. We find that charters are less likely to be hyper-segregated than traditional public schools (TPS), but TPS have compositions more closely reflecting the region. However, differences in each case are slight. Using student-level data to…
Descriptors: School Choice, Urban Schools, Charter Schools, School Desegregation
Nguyen, Bach Mai Dolly; Alcantar, Cynthia M.; Curammeng, Edward R.; Hernandez, Edwin; Kim, Victoria; Paredes, Audrey D.; Freeman, Rachel; Nguyen, Mike Hoa; Teranishi, Robert T. – ACT, Inc., 2017
As the United States continues to grow and the composition of its population shifts, expanding opportunity and reducing barriers to education must be a national priority. An essential first step toward greater educational equality is a deeper understanding of the fundamental changes in the demographic composition of the nation. Consider, for…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Quality
Parham, Candace S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine if individual and institutional factors predict candidates' performance on the Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer (BOC) examination and to determine if institutions' demographic profiles of athletic training predict pass rates on the BOC examination for people of color (POC). A BOC candidate…
Descriptors: Demography, Individual Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Performance Factors
Williams-Wyche, Shaun; Fergus, Meredith; Djurovich, Alexandra – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2016
The 2015 Minnesota Legislature enacted a state postsecondary educational attainment goal: 70 percent of Minnesota adults (age 25 to 44) will have attained a postsecondary certificate or degree by 2025 ("Minnesota Laws 2015 Chapter 69, Article 3, Section 6"). To achieve this goal, Minnesota must address disparities across the educational…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education, Educational Assessment, Demography
Iowa Department of Education, 2013
The Iowa Department of Education collects information on joint enrollment in Iowa's 15 community colleges. Jointly enrolled students are high school students enrolled in community college credit coursework. Most jointly enrolled students enroll through Senior Year Plus (SYP) programs such as Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) and concurrent…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Annual Reports, Community Colleges
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Thomas, Kevin M.; Bush, Sarah B.; Bucalos, Anne – AILACTE Journal, 2012
Defining and assessing dispositions continues to be a conundrum for many teacher education programs, particularly when significant dispositional concerns arise that warrant intervention. This study focuses on the analysis of dispositions intervention data from one institution to identify the trends and patterns that could further inform the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Lawrence, Shannon; Rayfield, John; Moore, Lori L.; Outley, Corliss – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
This descriptive study was a special project for the National FFA [Future Farmers of America] Organization to determine the demographic makeup of rural, suburban, urban, and randomly selected at-large FFA chapters from the four national FFA regions. Summary data for this study revealed that gender in selected FFA chapters was 55% male and 45%…
Descriptors: Demography, Comparative Analysis, Regional Characteristics, Rural Urban Differences
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
In the 2011-12 academic year, about 4 million students were enrolled in graduate degree programs in the United States. These students were pursuing a wide variety of degrees in many different fields, both academic and professional. These Web Tables use data from the 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12) to present estimates…
Descriptors: Profiles, Graduate Students, Tables (Data), Student Characteristics
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